For almost three decades, a woman lived her life not realizing that something was lodged in her eye, a case in United Kingdom reports.The woman, whose identity was not released, learned about a contact lens that was stuck in her eye when she went to visit a doctor for unexplained swelling in upper-left eyelid,as reported by Buzzfeed. The swelling started in a small amount but then grew and became painful to touch, according to the report. An MRI scan revealed that a cyst developed above her eye. Doctors surgically removed the growth only to have it rupture. That’s when doctors found a single cracked contact lens.The lens was a rigid gas permeable lens. The brand of contact lens differs from the more recent soft brand in that it were more uncomfortable and easily popped out of the eye. Rigid gas permeable lenses were first used in the 1960s, which prompted doctors to believe the lens discovered in the woman’s eye could have been there for 28 years. The time frame was later confirmed, according to the report, when the patient confirmed the last time she wore those type of contact lens she was 14 years old. She told doctors that she was hit in the eye with a badminton shuttlecock and everyone assumed the contact lens fell out. They were wrong, however. “We can infer that the RGP lens migrated into the patient’s left upper eyelid at the time of trauma and had been in situ for the last 28 years,” wrote Dr. Sirjhun Patel and colleagues, of the department of ophthalmology at the University of Dundee in Dundee, U.K.Buzzfeed reported that, miraculously, the only symptom noted from the issue was the drooping eyelid.

The woman, whose identity was not released, learned about a contact lens that was stuck in her eye when she went to visit a doctor for unexplained swelling in upper-left eyelid,as reported by Buzzfeed.

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The swelling started in a small amount but then grew and became painful to touch, according to the report.

An MRI scan revealed that a cyst developed above her eye. Doctors surgically removed the growth only to have it rupture.

That’s when doctors found a single cracked contact lens.

The lens was a rigid gas permeable lens. The brand of contact lens differs from the more recent soft brand in that it were more uncomfortable and easily popped out of the eye.

Rigid gas permeable lenses were first used in the 1960s, which prompted doctors to believe the lens discovered in the woman’s eye could have been there for 28 years.

The time frame was later confirmed, according to the report, when the patient confirmed the last time she wore those type of contact lens she was 14 years old.

She told doctors that she was hit in the eye with a badminton shuttlecock and everyone assumed the contact lens fell out. They were wrong, however.

“We can infer that the RGP lens migrated into the patient’s left upper eyelid at the time of trauma and had been in situ for the last 28 years,” wrote Dr. Sirjhun Patel and colleagues, of the department of ophthalmology at the University of Dundee in Dundee, U.K.

Buzzfeed reported that, miraculously, the only symptom noted from the issue was the drooping eyelid.